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Reinstalling Gnome/Xorg

Asked by zzzxxx

Ok well I had an old monitor off to the side of my room and decided to try to connect it. After fiddling with the setting in System--->Administration/Settings(forget which one)---> Screen Resolution

it seemed to be working, then after logging out, then in and trying to run stuff it started to bug up, then froze. so I rebooted hopping I could just edit the settings back to the way they were. GDM (the login screen) loaded, and I logged in and it froze with just a plain ubuntu-orange background screen, no keyboard strokes/combinations work(except holding the power button down), this does not affect other users just me. does not affect other Desktop Managers that I use, but I'd realy like to have my gnome back for the transition to Hardy.

Im currently running Ubuntu 7.10, latest kernel. Toshiba A200 TR6 Laptop.

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello Michalski

Login to the recovery mode...

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simple questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Or if nothing works

Login to recovery mode and type

apt-get remove xserver-xorg

and install it again

apt-get install xserver-xorg

and try....

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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zzzxxx (michalski-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

YES! Thank You, Again!

was a little scary reconfiging xserver-xorg with all tons of questions that i didnt know about, so I just went with auto detection and defaults and everything is back to normal. with the small exception of my gnome personal settings gone, I erased them while originally trying to fix the problem, oh well.

Thank You!

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zzzxxx (michalski-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.